Disputes

Well as unfortunate as it is that so much litigation happens in the secular world, when this attitude passes into the Church of Jesus Christ it is a great shame. It is not just that we live in a litigious society; we associate with a litigious church. This is the third problem that Paul is dealing with in this very interesting and helpful letter to the church at Corinth.

But while there is a legitimate role for the courts, from 1 Corinthians 6 we see that it is quite wrong when such legal appeal takes place in the Christian community against one another. There are several things that were wrong. Paul deals with this problem by talking about the item that was the most evident, and then he traces it back to its cause. Then he takes that cause and traces it to a still further cause. In order to see how he does this, we will start with verse 8 and work in reverse.